Hack Day summary

The winners: Team Sydsvenskan - Citypedia.se

The first Bonnier Hack Day is now over. Oh boy, what a day. Despite the fact that the alarm went completely berserk at around 5 pm, amazing participants, concepts, discussions and food made the event a huge success. And a big plus: the Internet connected worked fairly well for the most of the time.

The winning concept Citypedia.se, developed by Per-Olof Bondesson, Johannes Fosseus and Sara Johannesson from the Swedish newspaper Sydsvenskan, is a city wiki/guide that combines location-based mobile services such as Gowalla and Foursqaure, Twitter and newspaper articles (by using Saplo's sentiment analysis API) along with users' own ratings to estimate the popularity of venues and other city phenomenons.

The jury, consisting of Sarah Öhrvall and Alexander Jamal of Bonnier R&D, Roger Åberg of Feber, Spotify ex-CTO Andreas Ehn and Joakim Jardenberg of Mindpark AB, particularly liked the way in which team Sydsvenskan used new and vastly different sources/API:s to provide more accurate and extensive reviews. David Kjelkerud and Henrik Berggren's stunning photo-based news browsing service Pictoriala and Per Åström and Marcus Lindén's useful web TV content aggregator repr.is were nominated too.

There are of course several ways to enjoy Bonnier Hack Day in retrospect. Here are some:

Chris Thorpe's (@jaggeree) Hackwall and blog post.

Per Åström's (@perkovich) blog post (Swedish).

Bonnier.com article.

Photo set on Flickr.

Thanks everone for participating and making our first Hack Day a big hit.

Bye for now!

[UPDATE]

Blog post by Jocke Jardenberg (@jocke).

Blog post by Anton Lindqvist (@mptre).

Blog post by Gunnar R (in Swedish).

Sticker love

No real Hack Day without a logo and stickers. Thanks to Twitter we got several suggestions. I love them all (well, almost all ;) but could unfortunately, due to the Bonnier graphic design policy, only choose one of them. Still, I want to give all the designers credit by publishing the logos here:

The Winner

Christian Wilsson (@kribba)

The Rest

Johan Mogren @johanmogren)

Adam Gardefjord (@gardefjord)

And a (sligthly less serious) gift from our main competitor Schibsted:

Tobias Gärder (@tgarder)

Big thanks to all of you (and to Erika Jansson who also designed a logo)!

[UPDATE]

One more logo!

Benjamin Holfve (@trevald)

Team HW

We have only met once in person, but many times somewhere on internet during the past years. It will be interesting to see how a digital friendship works out in a 24h-hack day reality. We are going for a hardware project empowered by internet and numbers.

Per Åström (@perkovich), CTO at TV4 New Media with a past from Schibsted, Svenska Dagbladet and Aftonbladet. No programmer but with plenty of time and a good search engine he might produce something. Therefore always going for the open source alternative.

David Hall (@moonhouse), PhD student in computer science at Linköpings Universitet spends his days (apart from train riding) researching storage of XML data. Before going back to university he worked a couple of years with web development at Eniro and Reco.se. Fascinated by hack projects that integrates data from different sources. Would also love to come in contact with anyone who have large data sets and are willing to share those for research in the database area.

Available API:s

For more information about Bonnier API:s, please visit these blog posts:

http://www.24hbc.com/2009/09/bonnier-r-sponsrar-24hbc-pa-flera-satt.html

http://www.24hbc.com/2009/10/newsmill-oppnar-ocksa-upp-sitt-api.html

http://www.24hbc.com/2009/09/dise-oppnar-ocksa-upp-sitt-rss-flode.html

In addition, text analysis company Saplo has been kind enough to make one of its API:s available exclusivelly for Bonnier Hack Day. Email me if you want to know more.

About Bonnier Hack Day

Finally - the details for Bonnier Hack Day have been set!

Theme: Open API:s.Teams who use some of Bonnier's own open API:s get extra points. ;)
Location: Bonnier HQ, Kungsgatan 49 (7th floor).
Date: From noon March 11 to 3 pm March 12.
Schedule: Noon -2 pm March 11: Lunch + inspirational talks; 2 pm March 11-2pm March 12 (challenge); 2-3pm March 12: Elevator pitch session.

Apart from the actual hack challenge, a couple of special guests who will participate in different ways have been invited - some will develop their own things, some will simply talk. Among others, Chris Thorpe (@jaggeree), Developer Advocate at the Guardian, as well as Jaiku and Thinglink founders Jyri (@jyri) and Ulla-Maaria Engeström (@ullamaaria) are joing us. Other external participants are Mindpark's Jocke Jardenberg (@jocke), Citysounds.fm creators Henrik Berggren (@henrikberggren) and David Kjelkerud (@davidkjelkerud) from Doberman, the father of 24 Hour Business Camp, super-entrepreneur Ted Valentin (@tedvalentin), and Teknograd's Fredrik Davidsson (@fdqps) are joining us.

The event will end with a one-hour-long elevator pitch session. A distinguished jury will be present.

Looking forward to meeting you all!

Hello world!

Hi everyone!

In order to make sharing of Bonnier Hack Day-related information easier and encourage all participants to interact with each other, I decided to start this blog.

I'll grant all participants access to the blog so that you can publish information about your team and concept, or look for inspiration, additional team members or API:s to use. Thus: It is your blog as much as mine.

If you have any questions, please send me an email at paulina DOT soderlund [at] bonnier DOT se.

Welcome!